Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 626
April 11, 2023
One of the saddest things I can think of is a church Pastor who expounds knowledge from the pulpit without the empowering of the Spirit of God.
The scripture tells us that:
2 Corinthians 3:6 (KJV)
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
I have heard sermons that were Biblically correct but were delivered with such deadness that you could tell the one speaking knew nothing about the abundant anointed life Jesus came to give.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not referring to the difference between someone talking and someone yelling and getting emotional.
A loud emotional sermon can be just as dead if it is just emotion and not the anointing. On the other hand, I have heard calm teaching so anointed that every word was powerful.
It is not the delivery that makes a difference but if the person speaking knows the deliverer who came to set us free.
Jesus came to set us free from the bondage of satan and set us free to walk in the anointing of the Holy Spirit and free to be all we were created to be.
When Jesus was here on earth in a human body, the Scribes and Pharisees, who knew the Old Testament Scriptures and knew a Messiah was coming were so bound up in their rules system and their preconceived idea, they could not even recognize the one the nation of Israel was looking for as their redeemer!
John 5:16 (KJV)
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
Instead of rejoicing that a man that could not walk for 38 years was healed. They were upset it was done on the Sabbath Day and the man was carrying the mat he had been laying on!
Have you ever heard someone speak or talked to someone who was so hung up on their preconceived ideas about the Bible that they are closed to the notion that Jesus could do it different?
Are we so bound up in the way it has always been that we cannot recognize the Spirit of the Lord God Almighty working in a different way.
Jesus healed different ways when He was here on earth. He touched, He spoke, He commanded, He required something (like going to wash in the pool of Siloam), He was touched, and He even made a mud pack.
We cannot put God in our mold of this is the way it is supposed to be. Are we so closed to the working of the Holy Spirit that it’s our way or it is wrong?
Paul tells us that:
2 Corinthians 3:17 (KJV)
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Liberty to let God work will produce in our lives victory in every area. We are free to be all He has called us to be in every moment of everyday!
We need to study the word and we need to put it into practice in our lives as the Holy Spirit teaches us truth after truth from the Word!
The Holy Spirit Teaches us to rightly divide the word, getting to the heart of the matter!
But what we do not need to do is get so hung up on our way that we do not recognize Jesus in our midst.
Let Him work in us and He will work through us, even if it is not the way we thought it would be!
Minister after minister is leaving the ministry and I believe it is because they are not dependent on the Holy Spirit working through them but on doing it in their own strength and knowledge which results in burn out. That is true in every phase of ministry.
John 6:63 (KJV)
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
May we allow the Holy Spirit that came alive in us at salvation to quicken us and give us life giving words and actions to affect those around us!
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Father, we need your Holy Spirit to guide and lead us. May we be open to all you have for us and allow you to work through us by your Spirit that indwells us. I ask in Jesus Name. Amen!
Love, MeMaw
THOUGHTS FROM SKYDIVING MEMAW 